International Conference: Reworking the Archives. Hans Himmelheber and African Art/ists
The research project undertaken jointly by the Museum Rietberg and the University of Zurich with funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is drawing to a close after four and a half years. To mark its conclusion, an international conference is to be held with a focus on objects, images, and papers from the archive of the art anthropologist Hans Himmelheber. Academics and artists from Europe, Africa, and the United States will consider current topics ranging from the significance of African art within global art history, the restitution of cultural heritage to the (im)possibility of decolonization.
Program 14th April, 9am – 7.30pm
9 – 10.30am Panel 5 Le marché et les musées – stratégies de valorisations des collections
Chair: Esther Tisa
Presentation:
- Yaëlle Biro: Ethnographie, avant-gardes, et la formation du marché des arts de l'Afrique, 1905-1914
- Francis Tagro: De la collecte coloniale à la diplomatie muséale: Le Musée des civilisations de Côte d'Ivoire
- Christopher Steiner: African Art in Transit 30 Years Later: Reflections on the Art Market in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
- El Hadji Malik Ndiaye: Le musée Théodore Monod entre création contemporaine et patrimoine historique
Break
11am – 12.30pm Panel 6 Object Knowledge – Knowing the Object
10 Minute Presentation of Favoured Objects
Chair: Clara Himmelheber
Presentation:
- Floriane Morin: Histoires d'un adultère
- Fiona Siegenthaler: „Der Wunsch nach einem Maskenkostüm der Guro ist offenbar nicht leicht zu erfüllen“: Collecting as an Assemblage
- Alexander Brust: A Yupik Story-Knife in the Himmelheber Collection from Alaska in Basel
- Stefan Eisenhofer/Karen Guggeis: The Second Life of a Spirit Spouse
- Alexis Malefakis: Forgeries and Deviations – Two Interpretations
Break
2 – 4pm Panel 7 Artist Research – The Art of Research
Chair: Bärbel Küster
Presentation:
- Andrea Stultiens: Reframing PJU or the Art of Intervention (as research)
- Sinzo Aanza: Itinéraire des échos
- Désiré Amani: Conservation et conversation
- Angelika Boeck: The Portrait as a Multi-Sensory Cultural Practice
Break
4.30 – 6pm Panel 8 Colonial Heritage of the Archive / “the Archive”
Chair: Gesine Krüger
Presentation:
- Paul Basu: Archival Affordances: Epistemic Objects, Coloniality and Decoloniality
- Vitjitua Ndjiharine: Artistic interventions in the colonial archive
- Dag Henrichsen: Seeing Whilst Listening. Acoustic Archival Positions
6 – 7.30pm Keynote Lecture
Introduction: Ann Mbuti
Michèle Magema
Keynote Lecture:
- Michèle Magema: Recontrer les archives: entre immatérialité et narrativité
Venue:
Day program (9am – 6pm): Room KO2-F-152, University of Zurich (main building: Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich)
Keynote Lecture (6 – 7.30pm): Room KOL-G-217, University of Zurich (main building: Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich)
Duration: 9am – 7.30pm
Language: English and French
Space unlimited, no registration required
Please note that registration is required for the other days of the conference:
12th April
13th April
15th April
